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I stumbled upon a SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow (on prem) with the following (as always) useless error message: So I only get a HTTP 500 exception. Looking a the ULS logs at that time (the SPRequestGuid is the Correlation ID in ULS), I’ve found these interesting lines (in Dutch): Ongeldige tekstwaarde. Een tekstveld bevat ongeldige…

I’ve run into issues with a SharePoint Designer workflow recently, not starting for some users. Well, it actually DID start, but then got canceled after a few seconds. No log history to be found and the following error message: RequestorId: 44c5e543-de6a-c614-1959-863a8d5d4219. Details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 401 { “error”: { “code”: “-2147024891, System.UnauthorizedAccessException”, “message”: { “lang”: “nl-NL”,…

Today I encountered a very upsetting and unexpected error using SharePoint 2013 on premise Remote Event Receivers. I’ve configured a local WCF service to handle the events and that worked rather well for the first few versions. But after enough updates, some items didn’t trigger any events anymore. Strange 🙂 So I fired up good…

Have you ever modified a site page in SharePoint, wanting to add the value of a list item field without wanting to parse it to text yourself? I know I have. And when you get that field using JSOM and just output it to HTML you get that fantastic [Object] output instead of the user…

I’ve recently hit a terrible problem with SharePoint Online. Wanted to use site templates for Projects and Teams, but when creating the site template, I got some unknown error. Actually, when creating the template, the .wsp package was created successfully, so I could see it in the Solution Gallery. But it could not be activated.…

This question has been posted multiple times around the web, and I didn’t really find a good way to handle it, so here goes. Problem You want your users to take advantage of the built-in task lists of SharePoint. But from BPM training and painful experience, you remember that assigning tasks to individual users is…